Artist Mark Buckingham grew up in England - and apart from a brief flirtation with working in
animation - he always wanted to do comics.
This brief animation flirtation was with the Aardman Animation Studios - the studio who makes
Wallace and Grommit. Buckingham worked with Aardman on-and-off in 1986 and 1987, at the same
time as he was getting a design degree at Staffordshire University. He received a Bachalor of
Arts Degree with Honers in a multi-discipline design course which included photography,
audio-visual design, 3-D work, textiles, and graphic illustration, although illustration was his
specialty.
From 1988 to 1993, Buckingham inked many of DC's Vertigo titles such as Hellblazer,
Sandman, Shade, the Changing Man, and Death: The High Cost of Living -
which found Buckingham working for the first time with Chris Bachalo.
Buckingham first work for Marvel was penciling the Mortigan Goth: Immortalis limited
series for the Frontier imprint of the Marvel UK line. This was followed by inking the
lead story in the 1993 Ghost Rider Annual, a story Chris Bachalo penciled. The
collaboration on this story was so succesful that they landed the art chores for Ghost Rider
2099's first three issues. Buckingham also inked Peter Gross for #4, and penciled and inked
#5 himself. After that he did a run on the Docter Strange series and some Star Trek
stories for the short-lived Star Trek Unlimited series.
Buckingham is currently the artist on Peter Parker: Spider-Man together with writer
Paul Jenkins for Marvel.
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